Automobile radiator



E. 1 FEENY. AUTOMOBILE RADIATOR.

APPLICATION FILED SEPT.24,'1917- v 1 .3 QA55 Patented Aug. 1,' 1922.

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AUTOMOBILE RADIATOR.

APPLICATION FILED SEPT. 24. 1917.

Patented Aug. 1, 1922.

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EDMUND J. FEENY, or MUNGIE, INDIANA.

AUTOMOBILE RADIATOR.

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Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Aug.1, 1922.

Application filed September24, 1917. Serial No. 192,846.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, EDMUND J. FEENY, a citizen of the United States, residing at Muncie, in the county of Delaware and State of Indiana, have invented a new and useful Automobile Radiator, of which the following is a specification.

It is the object of my invention to increase the heat-dissipating action of the radiators of internal combustion engines, particularly of automobile and tractor engines, andto use in this heat dissipation the heat-absorbing qualities resulting from evaporation of water in contact with the heat-radiating surfaces of the radiator.

. In carrying out my invention, I associate with any ordinary radiator means for supplying water to the exposed heat-radiating surfaces thereof, so that the passage of the air over such heat-radiating surfaces will evaporate the water thus supplied to increase the cooling effect of the radiator. Preferably,I supply the water to the heatradiating surfaces of theradiator by wicks which lie against such surfaces so that they do not interfere with the passage of the air through the air passages of the radiator,

forming these wicks sothat they may readily be associated with the ordinary radiator.

The accompanying drawings illustrate my invention. Fig. 1 is a front view of an automobile radiator equipped with my invention; Fig. 2 is a vertical central section through such radiator, taken longitudinally of the vehicle, showing the general arrangement of the system; Fig. 8 is a fragmentary horizontal section through the radiator, showing how the wicks are associatedwith the radiator; and Fig. 1 is a horizontal section through the neck of one of the waterdistributing funnels.

The radiator 10 is of any ordinary or suitable construction, having a receiving header 11 at the top to which water from the water jacket of the associated engine is supplied through the usual connection 12, and a discharge header 13 at the bottom from which water is supplied through the usual connection 14, to such water acket, either by the natural circulation of the system or by a circulating pump. The headers 11 and 13 are connected by vertical water pipes 15, which in the form of radiatorshown are or dinary metal tubes, these tubes 15 being arranged in a transverse series of rows, with the individual rows extendlng longitudinally of the automobile, so that air passages 16 are provided between the roWs to permit the passage of air through the radiator in the'usual manner. In the radiator shown, the heat-radiating surfaces furnished by the outside of the tubes 15 are augmented by. horizontal heat-radiating plates 17 through which the tubes 15 project and with which they are in close contact, so that the heat radiation to the air passing through the passages 16 is not only from the surfaces of the tubes 15 but also from the surfaces of the plates 17. All this is an ordinary radiator I construction. r

In order to increase the heat-dissipating effect by producing evaporation of water, I provide a number of zigzag wicks 20, the spacings between alternate strips of which correspond to the spacings between adjacent rows of the water pipes 15, as is clear from Fig. 3. These zigzag wicks are thrust through the radiator so that they lie in the air passages 16 and closely against the adjacent horizontal plates 17 and against the rows of water pipes 15. In order to facili' tate thrusting these zigzag wicks through the radiator, they are preferably" provided with metallic core wires 21, for stiffening thrust into alternate spaces between such plates 17 from the front andrear of the radiator respectively. The series of vertical wicks 23, at the front of the radiator and 24 at the rear of the radiator, areprovided, be ing located respectively in the planes of the rows of water pipes 15, the vertical wicks 23 at thefront of the radiator being embraced by the bends 22 atthe front of those zigzag strips 20 which arethrust into the radiator from the front, and the vertical wicks 24 at the rear of the radiator being embraced by the bends 22 at the rear of those zigzag strips 20 which are thrust into the radiator'from the rear. "The vertical wicks in combination with horizontally extending zigzag wicks located in said horizontal air passages but filling less than the entire space of such air passages so as to permit the passage of air, vertical wicks in cont-act with the horizontal zigzag wicks, inverted funnels in which the vertical wicks are collected, a water tank, and valved connections for supplying water from said tank to the collected wicks in said funnels.

7 A cooling radiator for internalcombustion engines, said radiator havingvertical water passages and horizontal air passages, in combination with zigzag wicks projecting into said air passageways, the bends connecting adjacent strips of saidzigzag wicks being located outside of said passageways so that they permit the entrance and exit of air to and from the air passageways, and means for supplying water to said wicks.

8. A cooling radiator for internal combustion engines, said radiator having Vertical water passages and horizontal air passages, in combination with zigzag Wicks projecting into said air passageways, the bends connecting adjacent strips of said zigzag wicks be: ing located outside of said passageways so that they permit the entrance and exit of air to and from the air passageways, said zigzag strips being inserted into theradiator alterwhereby said water passages carry the cooling water of the engine, said radiator also having air passages which have metallic heat-radiating surfaces receiving heat from the water passages, and wicks exposed to the air which travels through said air passages and carrying water which receives heat from said cooling water.

In witness whereof, I have hereunto set my hand at Muncie, Indiana, this fifth day of September, A. D. one thousand nine hundred and seventeen.

i EDMUND J. FEENY. 

